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“It makes one weep to think how our middle-class people neglect their genealogies, so that they know nothing of their own people, and have no pride, and have no lessons from the past. Cannot something be done, my friends? Can we not write the annals of our own generation, each for his own family, so that whatever the fate of our children and ¬grand-children, they too may feel that they have ancestors who lived, ” and loved, and hoped, and made a little success, perhaps, and died and were forgotten as they too, in their turn, shall die.” – WALTER BESANT.

“The more thoughtful a man is, and the more conscious of what is going on within himself, the more interest ,will he take in what he can know of his progenitors, to the remotest generations, and a regard to ancestral honours, however contemptible the forms which appropriation of them often assumes, is a plant rooted in the deepest soil of ¬ humanity.” – GEORGE MACDONALD.

“All men are interested in any man if he will speak the facts of his life for them; his authentic experiences, which correspond, as face to face, to that of all the other sons of Adam.”

“The individual is but the symbol of the great mass, and the history of a country is but the story, on the heroic measure, of any one human being.”